On 03/31/16 12:51, Lloyd Brown wrote: > > > On 03/31/2016 10:35 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: >> I see your point. Why NFS, then? Rather than hundreds of automount >> mountpoints, a single iSCSI target could expose the user home >> directories with a single mountpoint, assuming the NAS device supports >> iSCSI. > > Several reasons. The problems I've been describing here are only issues > for backups, but the actual filesystems are going to be used by >900 > hosts. I suspect that any kind of block-based export like iSCSI, isn't > going to be viable. I've seen shared-block filesystems that work for > 8-10 hosts at a time, but that's about it. I could be out-of-date on > this, but that's my last understanding. But we're already doing NFS to > those same hosts, right now, with our old storage system, and it works > just fine.
No, Lloyd, I think you're misunderstanding Josh's suggestion. Let the user NFS hosts continue to automount their user home directories over NFS, just as you are now. Don't change anything there. It's not broke, don't "fix" it. But if the NAS supports iSCSI-target mode, export the entire shared volume from the NAS as a single iSCSI target to the backup server, and back up the NAS all at once over iSCSI without having to worry about mounting and unmounting individual homedir shares or all of the headaches that come with trying to back up over NFS. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: 603.293.8485 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
